If you are not using single quote anywhere else in the grammar, you can try this:
STRING : SINGLEQUOTE ( options {greedy=false;} : . )* SINGLEQUOTE ; If you are using single quote at other places also, then the problem becomes little more complex. In that case you have to decide in the lexer itself, in which situation you must emit WS as default token. For example you can decide to emit WS as default token between every pair of DQUOTE. Is it possible to define this exactly in your grammar? If it is possible then you can override the emit method and have two helped functions setWSDefault and unsetWSDefault. - Indhu -----Original Message----- From: antlr-interest-boun...@antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-boun...@antlr.org] On Behalf Of Chris Pinnick Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:10 AM To: antlr-inter...@antlr.org Subject: [antlr-interest] Selectively ignoring whitespace I'd like to ignor white space in general, and am doing so currently using WS : (' ' |'t' | '\n' )+ {$channel=HIDDEN;} ; but would like to include whitespace characters at certain points, e.g. when reading in a text string beginning with a ' so I have something like this: IDENT_WSPACE : LETTER {(LETTER | DIGIT | WS )*; input_ident: SINGLEQUOTE string=IDENT_WSPACE SINGLEQUOTE; But it is not currently working, any ideas? thanks, chris List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to il-antlr-interest@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to il-antlr-interest+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---